Display-rack.



Patented Mar, l3, I900.

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DISPLAY RACK.

(Application filed. Mar. 12, 1398.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN M. GREENER, OF STREATOR, ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,257, dated March 13, 1900. Application filed March 12, 1898. Serial No. 673,5 86. i (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN .M. GREENER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Streator, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Display- Rack, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to display-racks for goods, such as oil-cloths or other goods which are put up in rolls, and has for its object to provide a display-rack especially intended to display in a compact manner a large number of rolls of such goods, the arrangement being such as to permit of the unwinding of the goods from the roll without removing the roll from the rack.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the several parts and in the novel combination or arrangement, all of which will be fully described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claim.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention most nearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my invention in position for practical operation. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary detail view illustrating the lower portion of one of the corneruprights and its connection. Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating one of the shorter end uprights with attached brackets and rods.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur in the various figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A and A and B and B indicate the four corner-uprights of the rack, the uprightsA and B being connected by a longitudinal cross-bar O, the uprights A and B by a longitudinal cross-bar O, the uprights A and A by an end cross-bar D, and the uprights B and B by an end crossbar D near the bottom. The four uprights are similarly connected by similarlongitudi nal and end cross-bars E and E and F and F near the top. The top of the device is open to afford a place to store reserve stock to be supported on the end bars F and F. Uprights H and H extend between and are secured to the end cross-bars D and F, and similar uprights I and I extend between and are secured in the end cross-bars D and F. 5 5

Curved upwardly-projecting brackets are secured at regular intervals to all the uprights, those of the upright A being marked J, of the upright B marked J, of the upright A marked K, of the upright B marked K, of the uprights H and H marked L and L, and of the uprights I and I marked M and M. All of the uprightsare properly braced to the cross-bars to strengthen and stiffen the structure. RodsNof asuitable length for table oilcloth are secured upon the outer ends of the side brackets,while rods N ofa suitable length for shelf oil-cloth are similarly secured upon the ends of the end brackets. When therolls are supported on the curved brackets, they may be partially unwound, so that a short length of the material on each roll maybe passed over the rods at the ends of the supporting-brackets and hung down to display the pattern of the goods, so that any number of styles of both kinds of oil-cloth up to the capacity of the rack can be seen at a glance. The material on any particular roll can be drawn off to any extent necessary to properly display it, sold, measured, and cut off without disturbing any of the other rolls.

The advantages attending the use of my display-rack will be apparent to all skilled in the art to which the invention appertains. The device can be cheaply constructed and is so compact thatit will greatly economize space in a store and greatly facilitate the display and sale of the goods.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

. A display-rack comprising four posts and cross-bars for connecting them together, the end cross-bars being at a distance from the top, uprights between the top and bottom cross bars at the ends, upwardly-curved brackets secured to the posts and uprights, and horizontal rods for connecting the respective ends of the brackets, the rods at the sides of the rack extending above and the rods at the ends terminating below the top end crossbars, whereby a space is formed at the top of the rack, the ends of which are open and unobstructed.

HERMAN M. GREENER.

Witnesses:

HARRY H. KLICK, TRUMAN R. RICKER'I. 

